obras de lichtenstein

2. Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
was born in 1923
in America.
He became
famous for his
colourful pop art
paintings and
comic book style.
Photo courtesy of Eric Koch (@commons.wikimedia.org) - granted under creative commons licence

3. Examples of Roy Lichtenstein’s
art

6. • As well as normal colouring in to fill in the spaces, Roy drew small spots as
a different way to add colour to the space. These are called Ben Day Dots.
This dotty technique helps to build up colour and texture. The dots are
small and all the same size.
• Like a lot of cartoons, all of the people that Roy drew had black outlines
around their bodies and facial features.
• He used bright colours like Andy Warhol, but he only used a small number
of colours, especially the primary colours (red, yellow and blue). The colours
he used are the colours that we would expect to see, compared to the Andy
Warhol pictures we looked at last week where the skin and hair could
sometimes be very unusual colours.
• In the black and white picture on the first slide, Roy used just one colour
but we can see 3! To get black (as black and other dark colours will look in
a black and white photo), he coloured in the space with a black pen, to get
grey (as light colours will look in a black and white photo) he used a black
pen and drew small dots, and to get white he just let the white paper be the
colour!
What things have you noticed from
looking at these examples of Roy’s work?

7. Colouring with dots
• To colour in an area using the dotty technique, you choose the colour
that would use to colour the space in normally.
• The dots are small and the same size as each other.
• The dots are drawn in a straight line.
• Dots that are drawn close together will make the colour look darker.
Dots drawn further apart from each other will make the colour look
lighter. We can see this in the two pictures below, both when we look
closely and zoom out.

8. Over to you!
We have already done a normal self-portrait. Last week we did a Andy
Warhol style self-portrait. You are now going to draw a Roy Lichtenstein
style self-portrait!
You now need to open the instructions PowerPoint, where I will explain
step by step how you will do this with pictures of my example as I was
doing it.
This will also be narrated but I know that you won’t be able to do each
step as quickly as I read it. I suggest that you listen to me read a slide on
the Play view, just like you are now if you are listening to me read this,
then come out of the play view. Do that step, using the picture on the
slide to help you if you need it, then play the PowerPoint again from the
next slide to hear the next step.
I’m really looking forward to seeing your work!